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U.S. offers funding for marine energy development
May 01, 2018 (UPI)
The U.S. Energy Department's renewables division said up to $23 million in funding is available for marine energy devices. "Marine energy is the newest frontier...
Physics of a glacial 'slushy' reveal granular forces on a massive scale
May 01, 2018 (SPX)
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published the findings, describing the dynamics of the clog of icebergs - known as an ice melange - i...
Phytoplankton assemblages in coastal waters remain productive
May 01, 2018 (SPX)
This was the main finding presented in a study by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, which they jointly release with their Canadian colleagues advance...
Pacific and China on agenda as Macron arrives in Australia
May 01, 2018 (AFP)
Fresh from meeting President Donald Trump in Washington, Macron touched down for the first foray Down Under by a French leader since Francois Hollande came to B...
Whale shark logs longest-recorded trans-Pacific migration
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
STRI marine biologist Hector M. Guzman tagged a female whale shark (Rhincodon typus) near Coiba Island in Panama, the largest island off of the coast of Central...
After Cape Town, Ivory Coast city feels the thirst
Apr 26, 2018 (AFP)
Crippled by a three-year-long drought, the South African city braced for a complete shutdown of domestic water supplies. In the event, Cape Town dodged the imme...
As water crisis bites, Venezuela governor outraged over empty pool
Apr 26, 2018 (AFP)
In a video posted on his Twitter account, Rafael Lacava, governor of the northern Carabobo state, can be seen standing next to his empty pool issuing furious th...
Collapse of the Atlantic Ocean heat transport might lead to hot European summers
Apr 25, 2018 (SPX)
Record-breaking cold ocean temperatures across the central North Atlantic in recent years suggest that the northward oceanic heat transport through the Atlantic...
Tiny microenvironments in the ocean hold clues to global nitrogen cycle
Apr 23, 2018 (SPX)
According to new research by Thomas Weber, an assistant professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, small microenvironments in...
China Plans Base in South China Sea to Launch Deep-Diving Drones
Apr 23, 2018 (Sputnik)
The base would be located in Sanya, a city on the southern edge of China's Hainan island, Asia Times reported Friday. The Chinese state outlet People's Daily re...
Moss capable of removing arsenic from drinking water discovered
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
The aquatic moss Warnstofia fluitans, which grows in northern Sweden, has the ability to quickly absorb and adsorb arsenic from water. The discovery allows for ...
Nanoporous membrane centrifuge enables reverse osmosis without fouling
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
Nanomaterial-based separation membrane technology has been hailed as the game-changer in desalination technology, however, there are two major obstacles to prev...
Great Barrier Reef corals can survive global warming for another century
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
"It means these corals will still go extinct if we do nothing," said Mikhail Matz, associate professor in The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Inte...
Global warming is transforming the Great Barrier Reef
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
"When corals bleach from a heatwave, they can either survive and regain their colour slowly as the temperature drops, or they can die. Averaged across the whole...
UTA expands efforts to develop water recycling technologies
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
This collaboration has already resulted in a study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, where CLEAR evaluated a modular, multi-step water ...
Researchers find 'catastrophic' coral die-off on Great Barrier Reef
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
Scientists said some 30 percent of the reef's coral died in the heatwave from March to November 2016, the first of an unprecedented two successive years of cora...
Cold water devastates coral reefs off Japan: survey
Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)
The ministry surveyed the reefs in recent months and found widespread bleaching, with between 90 to 100 percent of each of the six spots surveyed affected. In f...
China to offer visa-free travel to its own 'Hawaii'
Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)
The new policy will start in May and allow travellers from 59 countries to visit Hainan for 30 days visa free, said Qu Yunhai, deputy director of the State Immi...
Large wildfires bring increases in annual river flow
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
Enhanced river flows are a good news, bad news proposition. The good news is more water can be a boon, such as serving as a hedge during times of scarce water. ...
Scientists use carbon nanotube technology to develop robust water desalination membranes
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
"Since more than 97 percent of the water in the world is saline water, reverse osmosis desalination plants for producing fresh water are increasingly important ...
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